Re: Re: pg_dump dumps views as tables???

If you look farther down that same dump, you'll see a CREATE RULE
that looks something like:

CREATE RULE AS ON SELECT

CREATE RULE "_RETincluded_works" AS ON SELECT TO "included_works" DO
INSTEAD SELECT "works"."uuid", "works"."title" as "lhs" [...]

In other words, pg_dump, especially before 7.1, exposes the details of
how views are implemented, rather than recreating the SQL you wrote to
create the schema.

Ross

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Gerard Mason wrote:
> Anybody?
>
>
> "Gerard Mason" <gerardmason(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote in message
> news:9gbd3s$2d6$1(at)news(dot)tht(dot)net(dot)(dot)(dot)
> > I am running postgresql-server-7.0.3-12mdk (Mandrake 8.0). The relevant
> part
> > of my build script looks like this:
> >
> > create view included_works
> > as
> > select uuid, title as lhs
> > , trim(to_char(cast(year_of_publication as int), '0000')) as rhs
> > from works
> > where include=true
> > ;
> >
> > What pg_dump actually outputs is this:
> >
> > CREATE TABLE "included_works" (
> > "uuid" character(36),
> > "lhs" character varying(80),
> > "rhs" text
> > );
> >
> >
> > I would be more appalled if I was less gobsmacked. Surely I'm doing
> > something wrong? But I can't find any reference to this in either the
> Admin
> > Guide or the Reference Manual (though admittedly I'm looking at the 7.1
> > ones -- the 7.0 ones didn't have any info on it at all, I think).
> >
> > Help.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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